Yvonne Vera Quotes

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Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence.

Yvonne Vera

There is a severe moment one wishes to retreat from because the time before, in its not- knowing, its not-tragedy, is preferable and consoling, and good.

Yvonne Vera

Yvonne Vera

Yvonne Vera

Born: September 19, 1964

Died: April 7, 2005 (aged 40)

Bio: Yvonne Vera was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe. Her novels are known for their poetic prose, difficult subject-matter, and their strong women characters, and are firmly rooted in Zimbabwe's difficult past.

Known for:

Butterfly Burning (1998)
The Stone Virgins (2002)
Without a name (1994)
Why don't you carve other animals (1992)
Opening Spaces (1999)

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